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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59268720764
EAN: 9780767914888
ISBN: 0767914880
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 15, 2004
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Studio: Broadway
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Nobody knows Tex-Mex like Houstonian Robb Walsh, who has spent much of his career researching the vibrant Mexican-American-and-Texan kitchen. Now he shares all the savory details in a comprehensive Tex-Mex bible, filled with outsize characters, fascinating stories, rare archival photographs, and of course great recipes for making an easy-to-elegant range of classic and nuevo dishes.
The Tex-Mex Cookbook takes readers from the Spanish missions of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century’s short-lived Republic of Texas and beyond, capturing the flavor of old San Antonio’s Chile Queens as well as the distinctively homespun inventions of rural border towns in lively prose and historic photographs. From the birth of corn chip mania to the booming Tex-Mex aisles in supermarkets across America, The Tex-Mex Cookbook reveals how "America's oldest regional cuisine" became a nationwide passion. Recipes include tacos, enchiladas, and authentic Texas chili, as well as fajitas, nachos, and Frito pie. Upscale contemporary selections such as Wild Mushroom Chalupas and Prickly Pear Margaritas bring this western saga up-to-the-minute.
A food fiesta that will delight home cooks and history buffs alike, The Tex-Mex Cookbook celebrates this inimitable culinary culture with the fact-filled, fun-filled tribute it deserves.
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I'm a Texas native living in Georgia. This book not only let me recreate many tastes from my childhood, but it also gave me the fascinating histories behind many of those nostalgic flavors. When I first received this book, I literally sat down and read it cover to cover. From the old Frito Bandito commercials to the San Antonio chili queens, this book gives a culinary history of my home state. I highly recommend it to any Texas ex-pat.
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The Tex-Mex cookbook is a rare book that comes along and takes me back to my heritage and how I was fed while being raised in San Antonio. I didn't see alot of hispanic names on these reviews and felt compelled to give my own two cents based on life experience.
My grandmother taught me to cook when I was young starting with mashing beans in the kitchen, grating the block of American Cheese she got from her church (government cheese?), and making table salsa in the molcajete. I gained alot of knowledge from her but was distressed that in my late teen years when she passed that I had not taken the time to write it down, mainly making tamales.
The past 4 years has seen me trying to recreate the recipes I grew up with limited success. Then I found this book and suddenly I could make tortillas that were fluffy and would bend and not crack when filling up with anything I could put in it, and finally understanding that the chili con carne that I was so used to at home was not hamburger meat but even better parts of beef.
The crown jewel was understanding how to make Masa for Tamales that were delicious and the pork filling. (I had to add additional spices, but the basic recipe is a great starter.)
My only complaint about the book was that it needs a better spanish rice recipe than the solo one it has listed. I made it at home and my partner suggested I keep the one I already make because he loved it the way it was. I also wish there were more pictures. I can't wait for the day when the rest of America wakes up to American Cheese as toppings on some of their favorite Mexican Foods. Sometimes the basics are all you really need.
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My cookbook arrived in perfect condition and in a timely manner. I am very satisfied!
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This cookbook is a great book to read and "yummy" recipes. I love the old history of the Tex-Mex cooking. It is so interesting, and the recipes are so great, that I cannot put the book down long enough to make something in the book. There are so many great recipes, I just don't know which one I want to make first. I also am going to get his other cookbook, The "Legends of Texas Barbecue", I know it will be another winner. You will not be disappointed in this book. You will love it!!
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Great book with complete Tex-Mex recipes and the history of most with great stories and pics. The best Tex-Mex book I could find.
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